Terry McDonagh – Glore Woman – For Sally McKenna

Sally McKenna came from the USA to live in County Mayo in Ireland about ten years ago and since then she, and her work as an artist, has had a huge impact on the life in the area around Kiltimagh. She has transformed an old disused mill into a wonderful artist’s studio and called it Glore Mill Arts Centre. www.sallymckenna.com

Woman without origin, here,you carve and quiltby the Glore riverlike a joyful feature glowingin the spirit of water and wood.

Woman without root, here,look back upriverto the source of wild currentsraging into tributaries of dustlike questions that cannot be answered.

Child of canvas and stone, here,come out into to the hills you have created,into your colours chanting,into the exile you left by a lake in Illinois.

Live Encounters Poetry & Writing August 2017

Live Encounters Magazine August 2017

Ernie LaPointe, Great Grandson of Tatanka Iyotake (Sitting Bull) Buffalo Bull Who Sits Down who was a Sun dancer, Medicine Man and Chief of the non-treaty Lakota,speaks to Mark Ulyseas in an exclusive interview